Albert Frank Moritz is a poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, teacher

Teacher

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, and scholar.

Born in Niles

Niles, Ohio

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, Ohio

Ohio

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, Moritz was educated at Marquette University

Marquette University

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. Since 1975, he has made his home in Toronto

Toronto

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, Ontario

Ontario

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 where he has worked variously as an advertising copywriter and executive, editor

Editing

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, publisher, and university professor

Professor

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. His poetry has been honored with a 1990 Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship

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, inclusion in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, and numerous other awards. He currently teaches at the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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.

He is married to Theresa Moritz, with whom he has collaborated on a number of books.

Poetry

• Here - 1975
• Signs and Certainties - 1979
• Black Orchid - 1981
• Between the Root and the Flower - 1982
• The Visitation - 1983
• The Tradition - 1986
• Song of Fear - 1992
• The Ruined Cottage - 1993
• Ciudad interior - 1993
• Phantoms in the Ark - 1994 (with Ludwig Zeller)
• Mahoning - 1994
• Night Street Repairs
• Early Poems
• Conflicting Desire
• The End of the Age
• Rest on the Flight into Egypt - 1999
• A Houseboat on the Styx
• The Sentinel (House of Anansi Press
  House of Anansi Press
  House of Anansi Press is a Canadian publishing company, founded in 1967 by writers Dennis Lee and Dave Godfrey. The company specializes in finding and developing new Canadian writers of literary fiction, poetry, and non-fiction....
  
  , 2008) - winner of the 2009 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize
  Griffin Poetry Prize
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Non-fiction

• Canada Illustrated
• America the Picturesque
• The Pocket Canada: A Guidebook - 1982
• Leacock: A Biography - 1985 (with Theresa Moritz)
• The Oxford Literary Guide to Canada - 1987 (with Theresa Moritz)
• The World's Most Dangerous Woman: A New Biography of Emma Goldman (with Theresa Moritz)
• Stephen Leacock: His Remarkable Life (with Theresa Moritz)

Translations

• Children of the Quadrilateral: Selected Poems of Benjamin Péret
• Testament of Man: Selected Poems of Gilberto Meza
• Ludwig Zeller in the Country of the Antipodes: Poems 1964-1979
• The Marble Head and Other Poems, by Ludwig Zeller
• The Ghost's Tattoos, by Ludwig Zeller
• Body of Insomnia and Other Poems, by Ludwig Zeller
• Rio Loa: Station of Dreams, by Ludwig Zeller

External links

• The Albert Frank (A.F.) Moritz fonds at the Victoria University Library at the University of Toronto
• Griffin Poetry Prize biography
• Griffin Poetry Prize reading, including video clip
• A.F. Moritz: master of metaphor - Profile in The Globe and Mail
• What Man Has Made of Man - Can poetry reconnect the individual and society? Poetry Foundation essay by A.F. Moritz